Karma with Sion
How to Synergize Karma and Sion
based on 2,567 Karma with Sion pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Sion Synergy Summary
Best Karma vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Sion
Tips for Playing as Karma with Sion
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Advice to Understand How Sion Will Play
Roar of the Slayer is a great setup ability to land a very powerful Decimating Smash.
The Soul Furnace buff displays how much shield strength is remaining, use this information to time its explosion perfectly.
You only have very slight turning ability during Unstoppable Onslaught, so make sure to use it in straight paths.
Karma Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Karma in LoL
The Karma Sion synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sion, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karma sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sion helps Karma perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma tries to synergize with Sion, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Sion provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Sion on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Sion.
Moreover, when Karma plays with Sion on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Sion does a poor job of covering Karma during teamfights.
Synergies between Karma and Sion
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Is Karma better when played alongside Sion?
There is no top ally for Karma that will always be her top synergy. Yet, Sion is a very typical teammate for Karma. By locking into the same side as Karma, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Karma and Sion that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Sion has a lower difficulty than Karma. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Sion teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Karma and Sion together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Sion ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to synergize with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Karma and Sion synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Sion than with many other typical builds. In fact, Karma had an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sion with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Karma and Sion pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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